Amar Kanwar

Selected Retrospectives

2012 Amar Kanwar In Focus: 5th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy

2011 Amar Kanwar Retrospective, 13th Madurai International Documentary & Short Film Festival

2010 Continent India: King of Dreams, Documentary Dream Show / Yamagata, Tokyo, Japan

2009 Amar Kanwar Retrospective: 13th Madurai International Documentary & Short Film Festival 2011

2009 Guest Filmmaker 2009, Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate University New York City New York

2008 Amar Kanwar Retrospective 2008, Parallel Perspectives Film Festival, Hyderabad

2008 International Artist-in-focus: Open Lab, Goteborg Dance and Theater Festival 2008

2006 Amar Kanwar Retrospective 2006, Vibgyor Short Film Festival, Kerala

2005 Amar Kanwar Retrospective 2005, 9th International Short Film Festival, Bangladesh
Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016 The Lightning Testimonies, Max Muller Bhavan, Goethe Institute, Mumbai

2016 Amar Kanwar. Frac Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France

2016 NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore

2015 The Lightning Testimonies, The Assam State Museum, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and North East Network, India

2015 The Sovereign Forest, as part of the Ediburgh Art Festival, Old Royal High School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

2015 The Sovereign Forest, Max Muller Bhavan, Goethe Institute, Mumbai

2013 Amar Kanwar : The Lightning Testimonies, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

2013 Amar Kanwar, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK

2013 Amar Kanwar : The Sovereign Forest, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary-Augarten, Vienna

2012 Amar Kanwar: Evidence, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland

2011 Amar Kanwar: A Love Story + Henningsvaer, Babel Art Space, Trondheim, Norway

2010 The Artists Cinema 2010, LUX and the Independent Cinema Office (ICO), London, UK special preview evening at Tate Modern

2010 Amar Kanwar, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

2009 Amar Kanwar Film Huis Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands. (Selection from ‘The Torn First Pages’) In collaboration with ‘Movies that Matter Amnesty International Film Festival’

2008 Amar Kanwar : The Torn First Pages (Part 1/2/3), Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Huarte Contemporary Art Center, Navarra, Spain

2008 Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages (Part 1), The Lightning Testimonies, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

2008 (The Lightning Testimonies + The Torn First Pages- Part 1) Amar Kanwar., Marian Goodman, Paris

2007 Amar Kanwar, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

2006 Amar Kanwar, Trilogy, National Museum of Art , Architecture and Design, Oslo

2005 Amar Kanwar, Nye filmer, Fotogallerie, Oslo

2004 Amar Kanwar, A Trilogy of Films, The Renaissance Society, Chicago

2003 Amar Kanwar, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Selected Group Exhibitions

2016 This Night-Bitten Dawn. Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi

2016 Land, Sea and Air. The New Art Gallery Walsall, United Kingdom

2015 Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland

2015 Fireflies in the Night, Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center, Athens, Greece

2014 In the Aftermath of Trauma – Contemporary Video Installations, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)

2014 Is it What You Think ?, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)

2014 On the Road/En el camino, curated by Gloria Moure, exhibition installed throughout historic buildings of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2014 Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd’hui, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2014 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy

2014 The Committed View, The Francisco Godia Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

2014 Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Non Violence, The Menil Collection, Houston, USA

2014 Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Florida, USA

2014 Word. Sound. Power. Khoj Studios, International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, India

2014 Sweet Dew - Since 1980, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea

2014 Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida

2013 No Borders, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

2013 Animate/Inanimate, Tarra Warra Museum of Art, Healesvile Victoria, Australia

2013 Connecting-Unfolding, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

2013 Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space, The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

2013 The Art of Truth: Gandhi and the Aesthetics of Non Violence, The Menil Collection, Houston

2012 Documenta (13), Kassel, Germany

2012 Newtopia, The State of Human Rights, Visual Arts Flanders, Belgium

2011 You Have Been There, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris

2010 Signs of Life, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

2010 The View from Elsewhere, Gallery of Modern Art and the Australian Cinematheque, South Brisbane, Australia (A Season Outside)

2010 Snapshots of Tourism, Helsinki International Artists Centre, (HIAP), Helsinki, Finland (‘Henningsvaer’)

2010 A Question of Evidence, The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

2009 Goteborgs Internatinella Konstbiennal, Göteborg, Sweden (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)

2009 The symbolic efficiency of the frame, Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania (‘The Smile’)

2009 Significant and Insignificant Events, Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey, (‘A Season Outside’)

2009 Trouble at the Front/ Troubles aux Frontières, with Yael Bartana and William Pope.L, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France (‘A Season Outside’)

2009 Expended Box, Arco Art Fair, Madrid, Spain (‘Henningsvaer’)

2009 The World in 1989, Haus der Kultur der Weldt, Berlin, Germany (‘A Season Outside’)

2008 A Question of Evidence, TBA 21 Vienna, Austria (‘The Torn First Pages,’ 3 parts)

2008 T.error - your fear is an external object, Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (‘A Season Outside’)

2008 The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art (Part I), The Hessel Museum and The Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard College

2007 There is no border..., Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Germany (‘A Season Outside’)

2007 GeoPoetics, Centro Guerrero, Granada, Spain (‘To Remember’)

2007 Shooting back, T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (‘A Night of Prophecy’)

2006 Every Day… another artist/ work/ show, Salzburger Kunstverein (‘A Season Outside’)

2006 Image War: Contesting Images Of Political Conflict, Whitney Museum, New York, USA (Selection from ‘The Torn First Pages’)

2006 The Artists Cinema, Frieze Art Fair, London (‘To Remember’)

2005 Populism, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway ; SMC, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania ; (Selection from ‘The Torn First Pages’)

2005 Experiments with Truth, Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, USA (‘To Remember’)

2005 Patriot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, USA (‘A Season Outside’)

2004 Doc Fortnight, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (‘Trilogy’)

2003 Territories, Kunst – Werke Berlin, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

2002 Extra Muros, FRI-ART Centre Art Centre d'art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland (‘Trilogy’)
Participations

2016 Mining Warm Data, Dhaka Art Summit, Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2015 Our Land/ Alien Territory, As part of the special program of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Central Manege, Manezhnaya ploschad (Manege Square), Moscow, Russia

2015 The Lightning Testimonies, As part of MDE15, International Art Encounter of Medellín, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Columbia

2015 Contesting Terrain, Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

2014 Word. Sound. Power., Khoj Studios, International Artists’ Association, New Delhi

2014 Gwangju Biennal, Gwangju, South Korea

2014 Where do I end and you begin, Edinburg Arts Festival, Scotland

2014 Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland

2013 No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

2013 Sharjah Biennale 11: Re:emerge – Towards a New Cultural Cartography, United Arab Emirates

2013 Poetics of Voice, Tate Modern, London

2013 Word. Sound. Power, Tate Modern Project Space, London

2013 Mom, Am I Barbarian?, 13th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey

2013 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

2013 56th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (A Love Story and A Scene of the Crime)

2012 Indian Highway, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

2012 Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2012 1st Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India (through 2013)

2012 Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

2011 Paris-Delhi-Bombay: India Through the Eyes of Indian and French Artists, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2011 Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah. (‘The Torn First Pages Part I, II, III’)

2011 On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York (‘A Season Outside’)

2011 Against All Odds: A Contemporary response to the Historiography of Archiving, Collecting and Museums in India. Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi (Selection from ‘The Torn First Pages + Henningsvaer + A Love Story’)

2011 Indian Highway, MAC-Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon (France) (‘The Lightning Testimonies’); Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy

2011 October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia (The Lightning Testimonies)

2011 29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brasil (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)

2011 India 2011, Babel Art Space, Trondheim, Norway

2011 1st Equator Biennial, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2010 Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

2010 Indian Highway, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark

2010 Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, Germany

2010 SAMTIDIGT Indian Contemporary Art, Kulturmhuset Stockholm, Sweden/ Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki, Finland (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)

2010 Aichi Triennial, Aichi, Japan (A Love Story + Henningsvaer)

2009 Indian Highway, Astrup Fernley Museum, Oslo, Norway (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)

2009 Lines of control, The Third Line Gallery, Dubaï, UAE (‘A Season Outside’)/ VM Gallery Karachi, Pakistan (‘A Season Outside’ + ‘The Lightning Testimonies’)

2008 Indian Highway, Serpentine Gallery, London, England (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)

2008 48°, Public, Art, Ecology, New Delhi, India (‘The Sovereign Forest’)

2008 Reflexions on Contemporary India, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)

2008 Can Art do more?,Art Focus Biennial, Jerusalem, Israël (‘A Season Outside’)

2008 Everywhere is War (and rumours of war),The Bodhi Art Gallery, Mumbai, India (‘A Season Outside’)

2008 Other than Yourself - An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space, TBA 21, Vienna, Austria (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)

2007 Documenta 12, Documenta, Kassel, Germany. (‘The Lightning Testimonies’)

2007 Thermocline of Art-New Asian Waves, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (‘Henningsvaer’)

2007 Stop & Go, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (‘Trilogy’)

2007 After Shock, Contemporary Art Norwich, UK (‘A Season Outside’)

2007 Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland (‘A Night of Prophecy’)

2006 Subcontingente, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (‘A Night of Prophecy’)

2006 Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær, Norway (‘Henningsvaer’)

2006 Zones of contact, Museum for contemporary Art, Biennale of Sydney 2006, Australia (‘Trilogy’)

2004 LIAF 04, Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær, Norway (‘A Season Outside’)

2004 Historical Retrospective - 50 years of Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany (‘To Remember’)

2004 Art Basel, Switzerland (‘A Season Outside’)

2004 In Progress, Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland (‘Trilogy’)

2004 ‘Diverge – Crossing Generations’, Mumbai (‘To Remember’)

2003 Art Basel Miami Beach, USA (‘A Season Outside’)

2003 Selves Made Strange: New perspectives from India at the House of World Cultures, Berlin (‘A Season Outside’)

2002 Amar Kanwar, 10th Biennial of Moving Images, Museum of Modern Art, Geneva (‘Trilogy’)

2002 Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (‘A Season Outside’ and world premiere of ‘A Night of Prophecy’)

2002 Werkleitz Biennale, Germany (‘A Season Outside’)

2002 Other India's - Breaking the Code, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (‘A Season Outside’)

2002 KalaGhoda Art Festival, Mumbai, India (‘King of Dreams’)

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